Great trades that helped put me in first..........

About three weeks into the year i traded heath bell, johan santana, josh johnson, brian mccann for josh hamilton and r.a. dickey and the trade worked out great for me. I picked up rosario who has had a better year than mccann and johan and josh have not been great this year and johan has obviously been shut down. About 100 games into the year i traded justin upton, hiroki kuroda and stubbs who i didnt even play for felix hernandez, max scherzer and jonathan niese. And if you check the stats of niese, max, felix since i got them they have been unbelieveable.

And the point of telling everyone this is? Good for you.....but the first step in a great trade, is having other managers that are actually willing to trade in the first place. Very small amounts of public leagues have managers active enough to bother with trade offers. Besides, you are basically patting yourself on the back for getting lucky. You had no idea by the third week in the year that the people you traded away were going to be as bad as they ended up.